How I Lost by Hillary Clinton sets out to explain Clinton’s 2016 defeat in Clinton’s voice. The book presents a collection of Hillary Clinton’s speeches and emails, originally published by Wikileaks, annotated by journalist Joe Lauria.

Lauria relies on a series of addresses to Goldman Sachs and at various industry events, emails from the Wikileaks Podesta release from last fall, and public campaign statements to argue that Clinton was the victim of her own insider elitism — and that her elitism is to blame for her defeat.

Ultimately Lauria doesn’t make a compelling argument as to how Clinton became so widely disliked by Americans of all political stripes, and how that ultimately resulted in her defeat. But How I Lost succeeds in illustrating why she was widely disliked and distrusted, showing Clinton to be completely removed from ordinary Americans.